[LINK] ABS Tries to Blame IBM for 2016 Census Problems

Tom Worthington tom.worthington at tomw.net.au
Thu Sep 29 08:31:25 AEST 2016


On 27/09/16 20:37, David Lochrin wrote:

> ... ABS may be great statisticians but project managing the design &
> implementation of an online census is a serious IT&C job. ...

ABS used to do serious IT&C jobs. I was trained in-house at ABS in IT, 
including working on the census data.

Of course things may have changed since: they still had punch cards 
then. ;-)


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